Press mechanism



C. J. NILL.

' PRESS MECHANISM.

APPLI C ATION FILED OCT. 11, I918.

1,333,671, 7 Patented Mar. 16,1920."

myk ammmemsemi aha-fumed States,f'*resi&ing at Erie, in *ceunt df Erie ans-sea 6f- 'nsylvania, have inveiitefl certain new and useful Improvements in Press Me'h sham; and res hersby useiaaaheaailawi ing to be a full, clear, and exact description" of thes invention, such as will enable others sln'lle'd' in the artt'o which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the aocom anying drawings, andtotheletters of re erence' marked thereon, inilpart of this specification. I p p 1 y invention relates to pressing mechanism, and has vfor its object. the; improvement of my pressing mechanism forwhicli Letters Patent No. 1,203,039 were assignee, and consists substantially. in the improvements in the press-roll driving mechanism hereinafter set forth and-described, andillustrated in the accompanying drawings in which a Figurer1,is a top or plan view ofthe central ortion of a pressing mechanism em- ,bodying my invention.

Fig. 2, is aside view-in elevation of the? same. I

Inthesedrawings A indicates the'endless flexible conveyer, A the frame of the ma-' chine, B, B (shown in dottedlines in Fig. 1 2) stationary rolls upon which the endless flexible conveyer is: supported and C, C vertically movable press rolls mounted in the machineframe and adapted to act on the flexible conveyer.v over the rolls B, B,

the rolls B, B bein driven bygear wheels 7 I D, D,on the ends 0 the shaft D D ,thereof from a pinion E on a centraldriving shaft F. Upon the driving shaft F there is a sprocket wheel F from which a sprocket chain F leadsfto the left toa source of power (not shown). for driving the machine; and upon the shaft D there is a D leads to the right and drives a support-- ,ing set forth and described in the Letters ing roll (not shown) for operating the flexia ble conveyer A. Theclutch lever is only shown diagrammatically, these features be- I therewith.

j T sawed ee aw; u plicstio fa q omber 1, eifs, seam." 297]?663? I D, lD ,andfon the' 'oppesi G =I 1* secure twosproekets l ana =1; arisen-' ,the oiitwardly eitendinghalfts eff 'the press rofllsG, 6 ,251se'euregsprecketsJ anajefl of equal tiiameterwith the sprdcketsflmud-I and emming horizontally-r{between the f sprockets I and J, and the sprocketsI? and J (there are sprocket chains L and L, which communicate motion from? the sprockets I and I to the sprockets-J andJ, thereby ranted October 31, 1916, to Ernst R. Behrfen as my 20 tate'd at a uniform speed corresponding with under. the press-rolls G and C" without 'clogging the operation of the machine; which opv ca-rried'under them by the belt A, and would the machine.

- 1 1' wine same midway betweenresser-ease, German ta-ari vmgsha a e on one end of which there is a gear wheel .intermeshin g with and driven bythe geai-s 'end'o f fihe shfftj ieo' positively driving the'rolls G and Cfg'fthe 'J andfJ being such that while the rolls B and B and the rolls C and G are all rothe supporting rolls B, B, andfthe speed of {the travel ofthe endlessfiexible conveyer A 7 operating betweensaid rolls, the rolls C and C are capableof avery considerable vertical movement this is possible because of the 1 sprocket chain L, L connection, and is a vital and necessary feature of themechanism to allow accumulations of the wet bark to pass eration ofthe{mechanism is not practicable unless the rollsC and C are power driven, andsodriven by means other than ordinary spur gearing, which would be out of mesi a every time an accumulation of wet bark was operate to clog the mechanism and thereby interfere with the successful operation of V This improvement on the patented machine overcomes serious defects in the operation. thereof, inasmuch as it prevents the 010 gingof the wet bark infront ofthe rolls and C, and thereby greatly facilitates the successful operation of the: machine. sprocket wheel from which a sprocket chain tion and operation of my improvement so as to enable others to construct and utilize the same what I claim as new and desire to lower roll," a continuous flexi 1e conveyer 1 10 r g F Til I.

70 proportions of the gear wheel H to the ear wheels D and D, and the sprockets I an I,

. p Therefore having described the construca V resting u on said roll and travelinginnnii i son wlth the rotat on thereof,- a 'vertlcally movable. press-rollirestlnguponsald'comveyer vertically above the. lower horiiontal roll and journaled so as to be vertically rnovable in the machine frame, and sprocket chain "mechanism connecting said driving shaft with said vertically movable pressroll, whereby said prew -roll. is driven, re-

ardless of its vertical movement, at a unior n speed with the lower roll, and'with'the travel; of the endless conveyer, substantially as set forth;

son withjthe rotation thereof, a press roll resting upon psaid conveyer aboveea'ch of said lowerrolls and vertically movable in the machine frame, gear wheels on each of the lower rolls fordriving them, a transverse shaftmounted in the frame between the 7 press rolls, a gear wheel on one end thereofintermeshing with and driven by the gear wheels on the lower rolls, sprockets on the opposite end of said shaft, s rockets on the. ends of the. ress roll s afts, and sprocket chainslea ing from the sprockets on said transverse shaft to the sprockets on the shafts of thepress rolls'whereby the pressrollsare driven ata'nniform speed. with the. lower rolls and with the travel of' the endless conveyer, substantially asset forth.

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'ooNR n :J, NILL.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signa 

